Category: Criminal Justice

Congressman Bean loves to talk about “protecting police dogs.”  He praises his K-9 Protection Act as if it were the height of compassion, yet says nothing about the people brutalized by the same agencies those dogs serve. While ICE and Border Patrol have slammed unarmed civilians to the pavement and terrorized families, Bean’s outrage begins and ends with the animals.

We value every life, human and canine, but compassion that ignores human suffering isn’t compassion at all.

Behind that grin lies something darker a steady stream of lies, hypocrisy, and cruelty wrapped in charm.

The man who claims to “stand with working families” voted for a so-called “Clean Continuing Resolution”, a bill that would have allowed subsidies to expire for the Affordable Care Act (Obama Care) and block Medicaid extensions.

Had that bill passed in the Senate, Marketplace healthcare premiums would have skyrocketed, and health coverage would have been stripped from millions of Americans, leaving families across Florida facing impossible medical bills or no care at all.

He calls it “fiscal responsibility”

We call it what it is: an attack on the health and dignity of the people he’s sworn to represent.

When Bean talks about compassion, he means “damage control.”

He wrote letters asking utility companies to show “mercy” to federal workers, the same workers losing paychecks because he voted for a budget bill that slashed ACA subsidies, fueling the shutdown standoff in the Senate.

He calls it “compassion”

We call it what it is: Theater.

He grins beside dialysis patients and seniors in nursing homes while voting for the Republican “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”, legislation that threatens or eliminates the very programs those people rely on.

He calls it “fiscal discipline.”

We call it: Cruelty disguised as compassion.

Aaron Bean doesn’t stand with working families. He stands in front of them, for the photo op.

Bean is now proudly promoting his “LEO K-9 Protection Act,” calling police dogs “precious animals” who deserve “safe haven.”

But where is his compassion for people?

For the migrants and protesters slammed to the ground by ICE officers, for the people thrown into ravines and detention cages, for the workers who are unable to feed their families because of his votes.

He weeps for wounded dogs while ignoring human beings brutalized by the same agencies he glorifies.

Bean cries for K-9s while turning his head away from people

We call it: Selective empathy, the cruelty of moral convenience.

Now, he’s trying to sell the lie of a “Senate-led shutdown.”

Here’s the truth:

• The shutdown began in the House, when MAGA Republicans refused to pass bipartisan funding that the Senate had already approved.
• He claims Democrats “voted to keep the government closed.”
• What he doesn’t say is that those bills were loaded with MAGA poison pills, deep cuts to healthcare, disaster relief, and environmental protections.

He created the crisis and now blames others for the pain.

It’s the oldest political trick in the book: “cause the fire, then pose with the hose.”

Bean’s job isn’t governing, it’s performing.

He loves ribbon cuttings and happy talk about “Florida sunshine.” Meanwhile, Florida families face rising prices, shrinking safety nets, and lost paychecks.

When the lights go off and the cameras turn away, his compassion disappears right along with them.

Aaron Bean doesn’t understand the No Kings movement because he doesn’t understand democracy.

He calls peaceful citizens “unruly.”

He praises power and mocks dissent.

And he serves a movement that would rather rule than represent.